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Inkomoko Kenya Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs -  including refugees - to grow. Offices in Kakuma, Nairobi, Garissa, Dadaab, Eldoret, and Mombasa.

Connect with us to learn how Inkomoko training, consulting and access to finance services can help your business grow.

The first procurement decision happens before anyone submits a quotation. Social procurement begins with who gets invite...
22/09/2026

The first procurement decision happens before anyone submits a quotation. Social procurement begins with who gets invited to compete.

Strong suppliers are often already operating in the communities where organisations work - delivering quality products and services, building trusted customer bases and creating local jobs. But if they are not visible to procurement teams, they may never get the opportunity to compete.

Kalu was one of them. His customers knew the quality of his work. The procurement team didn’t know he existed.

What happened when they found him shows how small changes in procurement can open opportunities for local businesses - and give buyers access to suppliers they might otherwise overlook.

Before your next procurement, choose one purchasing category and ask: Who might we be missing?

Swipe through for Kalu’s story - and the practical steps buyers can take to make procurement more inclusive from the start.
Read Kalu's story here - https://tinyurl.com/ycxbe4kx



Now open 🚨: Applications for the Inkomoko Civil Society Organisations Capacity Strengthening ProgrammeIf you run a civil...
07/09/2026

Now open 🚨:
Applications for the Inkomoko Civil Society Organisations Capacity Strengthening Programme

If you run a civil society organisation in Kenya or Ethiopia, this is 12 months of training and mentoring to help you run it better.

Over the year you get support with:
✅Leadership and how your organisation is governed
✅Managing money
✅Keeping the people you work with safe
✅Raising funds
✅Running better programmes

You can apply if your organisation is based in an area that hosts refugees and displaced people in Kenya or Ethiopia, and has been running for at least three years.

Applications close on Wednesday, 30 September 2026.
Apply here: https://shorturl.at/Aohmy

Know an organisation that should see this? Send it to them.

A procurement team in Kakuma had never heard of Kalu.Ask around his part of the camp and you get a different picture. Cu...
02/09/2026

A procurement team in Kakuma had never heard of Kalu.

Ask around his part of the camp and you get a different picture. Customers who know other welders wait for him anyway. A community member says he brings things back to life.

His workshop sits five kilometres from Kakuma town. Teach for Community's procurement team only learned about him because Boutross recommended his work and drove them out to see it.
That worked, for one supplier, on one order. It raises a question for every buyer working from a familiar list: who never makes it onto yours?

Before your next brief:
- Map suppliers beyond your current vendor list.
- Visit workshops or request photographs of completed work.
- Tell suppliers about upcoming work early enough to prepare a quotation.
Read Kalu's story: (https://shorturl.at/PRqu9)

26/08/2026

How does a reliable supplier stay invisible to the buyers who need one?

Recommendations bring Kalu customers. He takes on project work for organisations in Kakuma, but he says customers usually choose someone they know or someone recommended to them.

For procurement teams, that raises a wider question: who gets invited to compete?

Social procurement widens supplier outreach so locally rooted businesses can compete for institutional work.
If your company or institution buys goods and services in Kakuma or another displacement-affected market, review your next sourcing process:
• Ask who else could have quoted for this job.
• Assess them against the brief.
• Build supplier relationships with those that deliver.

Watch Kalu’s story. Then look again at who receives your next invitation to bid.

18/08/2026

Francine used to work in this salon as an employee. Today, she owns it.

She saved, bought the business from her employer over time, and built a loyal customer base. When clients began travelling from Nairobi to Kitengela for her services, she opened a branch in the C*D.

As the business grew, Francine kept moving to the next stage. She applied business training from Inkomoko to add complementary services, and used financing for stock, equipment and now a new spa.

From employee to owner to employer, each stage required more investment. She repaid her first two loans in full. Her current loan facility is 7.5 times the size of her first.

For financial institutions, that progression is the business case. Start small. Let repayment and business growth earn access to larger financing. Entrepreneurs like Francine are customers worth growing with.

14/08/2026

Maryanne is an AI voice coach for women micro-entrepreneurs in Nairobi and Eldoret. She works through free standard phone calls.

No smartphone.
No internet.
No app to download.

A client asks a business question, gets guidance, and chooses what to apply in her business.

Maryanne is being tested through a pilot with women entrepreneurs in Nairobi and Eldoret. So far, 89 are actively using her.

Maryanne is part of GAIL, the Gender & AI Livelihoods program, run with our partner Fortell AI.

The tool was created to meet a practical need. A workshop can introduce a useful idea, but entrepreneurs often need guidance when they are making decisions about stock, customers, pricing, or sales.

Most digital tools assume smartphones, data, and high digital confidence. Maryanne was built around a lower-access reality.

Good AI starts with the person using it. In underserved communities, that means building with entrepreneurs, around the tools they can access.

Aimee began selling kitenge in Nairobi with five pieces of fabric.She reinvested every sale, earned stock on credit from...
04/08/2026

Aimee began selling kitenge in Nairobi with five pieces of fabric.

She reinvested every sale, earned stock on credit from a supplier and kept travelling to markets until she could open a shop in Kasarani. Through business training, she improved her inventory management, bookkeeping and daily operations. She later accessed three loans through Inkomoko and repaid each one in full.
Her shop now supports her extended family and serves Congolese women looking for fabrics that connect them to home.

Aimee has a bank account. She has a repayment record. She knows exactly how she would use a larger facility. Yet commercial bank credit remains beyond her reach.
Her story raises a direct question for Kenya’s financial sector: when an entrepreneur has repeatedly borrowed, invested and repaid, why does that history still carry so little weight?

Banks should assess verified repayment and business records when considering entrepreneurs for larger working-capital facilities. Regulators and development finance partners can help make that transition possible.
Read Aimee’s story through the link in our bio 👆🏾

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15/07/2026

Every conversation about youth skills asks how young people can prepare for work.

A different question is: who is creating the work?
Ahmed's tailoring business in Dadaab employs 12 people while training 21 more. Some former trainees have gone on to start businesses of their own.

That's what business growth can do. One entrepreneur builds a business. That business creates jobs, develops skills and helps the next generation build businesses of their own.

This World Youth Skills Day, we're celebrating Ahmed and entrepreneurs like him.

Economic opportunity is safety.This World Refugee Day, Inkomoko joined displaced communities, refugee-led organisations,...
24/06/2026

Economic opportunity is safety.

This World Refugee Day, Inkomoko joined displaced communities, refugee-led organisations, humanitarian partners, Kenyans, and the Government of Kenya at the national commemoration held at the University of Nairobi.

Under the theme “Until Everyone Is Safe,” we reaffirmed our commitment to inclusive economic empowerment for forcibly displaced people and host communities.

Safety means dignity. Safety means opportunity. Safety means access to livelihoods, finance, markets, and partnerships that help people rebuild their lives and contribute to thriving communities.

We call on the private sector to step forward through investment and partnership, because inclusive economic growth is not only good for business, it is essential to building safety, dignity, and resilience for all.

23/06/2026

The private sector has overlooked markets that have been growing in plain sight.

Across East and Central Africa, displacement-affected entrepreneurs are generating $61 million in revenue, creating 1.5 jobs per business, and maintaining a 92% loan repayment rate.

Manufacturers, banks, logistics providers, FMCG companies, and technology firms have a choice: enter, partner, invest, and serve these markets now, or ask later why they waited.

Watch this.

Then decide what role your business will play.

Your next customer, supplier, employee, or business partner is here.

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